Jurgen Klopp admits Liverpool need to improve their game management – but believes becoming more streetwise isn’t simply a matter of splashing the cash this summer.

Klopp singled out the greater experience of Chelsea’s players during key moments of their 1-1 draw at Anfield on Tuesday night.

The Reds boss saluted the “really clever” David Luiz free-kick that ensured the Londoners remained 10 points clear of Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table, and also hailed “warrior” Diego Costa for his performance.

Klopp accepts his squad currently lacks the ability to close out games similar to Chelsea under boss Antonio Conte.

But he is confident Liverpool can learn together the mentality that is an accepted quality of almost every successful team.

Jurgen Klopp Manager of Liverpool with David Luiz of Chelsea at the end of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield on January 31, 2017 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

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“We have a young squad so we have to get to there,” said Klopp. “If you play like we play and we win with it it’s great, but if not it is ‘do this, do this’.

“We need more game management. Everyone talks about our intensity but sometimes when we run like devils I have to say ‘come on, please cool down’.

“Like Chelsea would do at 2-0 up, or when Conte was in Turin – 1-0 up, change, put on a defender.

“That is a mentality. It is smart, maybe not always spectacular, but give us the time to create something like this.

“We can not say do this, or do that all the time. But there is a moment when you must think let them come and we will counter-attack.

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“We know about this. But it is not that everything can be done in one week, two weeks or one year. We have to develop a few things.”

Klopp – whose side are at struggling Hull City on Saturday afternoon – accepts Chelsea are benefiting from greater nous, but has dismissed suggestions he’ll need to buy in such experience.

“I am not sure if you can force something like this but it’s a good thing to have in football, of course,” said the Reds boss. “If you are a clever side it is part of the football skills.

“They (Chelsea) are more experienced and sometimes more clever or smart, however you want to say, with the situation with the free-kick. In the end it is a great free-kick, too.

“Yes, we can improve on this but we cannot improve every day on every thing. We have to still be focused on a few things we can do immediately. With experiences comes the other things.

“You can’t buy experience, you have to get it together. If a player comes in and says how he did it (somewhere else) maybe that was right for the team he played at before, but not exactly the same for now.

“We need to create things together and when things are working we are creating moments like this.”

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Klopp added: “At Chelsea we scored a goal by (Dejan) Lovren that was clever. No-one can remember it. A short free-kick. Two passes, they went in one direction and we knew that would happen.

“Nobody said after that was clever. But we have these parts to the game.”